Meditation – Cultivating a Relaxed Attention

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Meditation – Cultivating a Relaxed Attention - In this meditation we engage a relaxed and alert attention by scanning through the body, opening to sound, and resting in the awareness that includes all the senses. This presence is stabilized with the use of a home base, for many the breath, and reminders to “relax back” when the mind naturally drifts.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:05.8	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	Let your attention go inward.
0:47.7	You might feel the movement of your breath.
0:51.4	And gently let the attention rest with the breath, just collecting and settling a bit.
1:03.0	You might imagine you could feel the breath right at the heart, beginning to bring the attention
1:08.4	fully to the heart.
1:14.0	We open our meditation and our time together with a simple reflection on intention.
1:21.6	What is your deep intention for practice right now?
1:28.6	For meditating.
1:29.6	What is it your heart really longs for?
1:41.5	Taking some moments to sense what matters to you.
1:45.0	What really brings you here.
1:58.0	Letting yourself feel a sense of sincerity, a kind of heart presence.
2:09.8	Just key gateway into presence is being awake in this body.
2:16.4	Then we begin with a gentle scan through the body.
2:22.0	I like starting at the brow.
2:25.8	You might smile into your eyes, since the outside corners of your eyes lifted slightly
2:33.7	in a smile.
2:37.8	And let the whole area around the eyes soften.
2:43.2	Let your brow be smooth.
2:57.7	Bringing that same curve and receptivity of a smile to the mouth.
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